@PoliticsAllie@business london is the most populous city in western europe, it has the biggest economy of any city in europe, and it has the second busiest airport in europe (the busiest in the world per runway)
@Stemis3@yimbylabour you physically have to have cuttings and tunnels, unless you want to build the entire thing on a viaduct and purchase thousands of parcels of land in Manchester, London, Leeds, and Birmingham
Weโre living in increasingly uncertain times, and I know many Londoners are concerned by whatโs taking place around the world.
My message to Londoners: this is your home, you are wanted here, and you help to make London what it is - the greatest city in the world.
Queue of cyclists over Blackfriars bridge, time to sort out Waterloo and Westminster bridges I think!
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Thereโs always more cyclists than cars travelling over the bridge
@markyaurelius1@HaydnBelfield because there's only a handful of companies rich enough to build them, and the ones that need them already have them
also, the uk has the highest commercial energy costs of anywhere on earth, so that combined with the capital costs puts companies off
We're just desperate for growth but we can't do planning reform yet because we haven't finished consultations and we can't build HS2 because we can't afford the bat tunnels and we can't permit a 3rd runway at Heathrow because people live nearby and they might not like planes and
@geologisms it's people being uneducated about history, mixed with them not having time to look at anything political or just not caring
there's also an entire group that believes everything trump says is just massive hyperbole to win the election and none of it matters